Virginia Terán
List of John Benjamins publications for which Virginia Terán plays a role.
Articles
2020. Chapter 12. Proposing a tripartite intensifier system: Re, muy, and bien in Buenos Aires and Tucumán, Argentina. Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Pascual y Cabo, Diego and Idoia Elola (eds.), pp. 253–272
Tripartite systems demonstrate how a dominant form coexists with other variants without any falling into disuse, as each occupies a particular space (Kapatsinski, 2009). Intensifiers reveal language change through rapid variability and recycling in popularity (Tagliamonte, 2008), as seen in… read more | Chapter
2018. Variable past-time expression across multiple tasks in Tucumán, Argentina. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 31:2, pp. 605–637
We examine variable past-time expression in urban Tucumán, Argentina, an understudied region representative of the set of Andean varieties included in Northwestern Argentinean Spanish. We analyze the present perfect (PP) and preterit in two contexts of data collection: a sociolinguistic interview… read more | Article